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Question: How to Be Simultaneously Affectionate and Detached? Hare Krishna Gurudeva, Please accept my most respectful obeisances,  All glories to Srila Prabhupada! I was reading Srimad Bhagavatam and I was hoping you could offer some clarity on the purport to SB 5.1.6 purport: "In the same way, although a devotee may enter family life and act very affectionately toward his wife and children, he is never attached to these activities." How can one learn how to be detached from family life while at the same time acting very affectionately? What is the true meaning of affection in this situation? your servant,

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:
Be Affectionate on the Basis of Duty to Deliver Them

Affection in Krishna consciousness means to always act for the spiritual benefit of others by facilitating their going back to home, back to Godhead. This is real love and affection. This means that instead of being affectionate on the basis of sexual attraction, the householder should be affectionate as a matter of spiritual duty. Dutiful affection according to Vedic orders remains permanently because it is on the spiritual platform. On the other hand, affection based on sexual attraction is flickering because on the material platform what attracts you today disgusts you tomorrow. This is why there are so many divorces nowadays. People are getting married on the basis of sexual attraction instead of on the basis of duty, and their affectionate feelings thus gradually fade away.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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